Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Royal Mencap Society

Transforming access to justice

Grant: £40,000
June 20, 2018

Developing a chatbot that will provide basic legal advice on social care issues and so increase the ability of care workers to understand and use the law to support people with learning disabilities and their families.

Increase Public Understanding

Advance High Quality Thinking

Increase Access to Employment

Staff in Voluntary Sector

Implications of Brexit

Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Influence the Online Court

Develop Robust Evidence Base

Understand Role of Technology

Law Reform, Policy and Regulation

Communications to Disseminate Learning

Law Centres Network

Scoping and design of a pilot to meet legal need within Social Finance Health and Social Care platforms

Grant: £38,250
June 20, 2018

Supporting a collaboration with Social Finance to develop a sustainable model for integrating work that identifies and resolves unmet legal needs into two of Social Finance service platforms that address health and social care needs.

Increase Public Understanding

Advance High Quality Thinking

Increase Access to Employment

Developing Income Streams

Implications of Brexit

Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Influence the Online Court

Develop Robust Evidence Base

Understand Role of Technology

Law Reform, Policy and Regulation

Communications to Disseminate Learning

Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality

Health Justice Partnership in Suffolk

Grant: £19,855
November 13, 2017

The project aims to improve understanding of how social prescribing in health settings could increase access to social welfare legal advice in Suffolk and reduce health spend by researching current practice and building a robust business case for local health commissioners to fund local advice services to develop and run an effective model of future delivery.

Currently, social prescribing activities in Suffolk are small scale, sporadic and little is known about their nature or the extent of their impact, which is a challenge for advice services seeking to develop a more cohesive, strategic structure for support. The project will address this by identifying existing activities within the county and, by using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, summarise the nature of these activities and the extent to which they are successful in increasing access to social welfare legal advice.

The project will examine the challenges faced by those providing social prescribing activities in the county and summarise perceived gaps and areas for improvement, in addition to potential opportunities, with a view to informing development of a Business Plan. The research will also draw upon best practice from elsewhere in the UK by researching five case studies of social prescribing activities that are considered to be successful models and use them to design a suitable Suffolk model.

Increase Public Understanding

Advance High Quality Thinking

Increase Access to Employment

Developing Income Streams

Implications of Brexit

Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Influence the Online Court

Develop Robust Evidence Base

Understand Role of Technology

Law Reform, Policy and Regulation

Communications to Disseminate Learning

British Institute of Human Rights

An online educational tool: human rights in health and care

Grant: £100,000
November 13, 2017

This project builds on key points from face-to-face education to develop an online educational tool to help patient advocates, advisers, and health/care professionals to use human rights to support patients, securing their rights and protecting them from neglect or abuse and unfair treatment. Whilst people can use the tool to self-advocate, the target will be the many organisations/agencies charged with supporting patients, particularly those with mental health/capacity issues. This includes people living with dementia, autism and/or learning disabilities. Our interactive tool will enable patients/advocates/health workers to identify whether a person’s rights may be at issue and then take them through a series of practical steps and tools to resolve this pre-litigation (e.g. sample letters and worked examples).

Increase Public Understanding

Advance High Quality Thinking

Increase Access to Employment

Staff in Voluntary Sector

Implications of Brexit

Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Influence the Online Court

Develop Robust Evidence Base

Understand Role of Technology

Law Reform, Policy and Regulation

Communications to Disseminate Learning

UCL Centre for Access to Justice

The Value of Health-Justice Partnerships – research on outcomes, implementation

Grant: £7,400
September 27, 2017

This funding provides research assistance in the run up to the International Health Justice Workshop in November 2017.

Increase Public Understanding

Advance High Quality Thinking

Increase Access to Employment

Developing Income Streams

Implications of Brexit

Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Influence the Online Court

Develop Robust Evidence Base

Understand Role of Technology

Law Reform, Policy and Regulation

Communications to Disseminate Learning

Law Centres Network

Review of Social Finance Health and Social Care platforms

Grant: £10,000
August 24, 2017

This is a short programme of work to identify areas of unmet legal need within the key ‘platforms’ that Social Finance have established and run in the Health and Social Care space (Shared Lives, Reconnections, Mental Health and Employment, and End of Life Care). Work will identify and explore instances where users involved with these platforms may have unmet legal needs, with a possible view to further platform development / work to address any gaps identified.